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…Source A: Lenin was a great leader yet the most humble of men. For his achievements in the October revolution, in defending the foreign invaders and destroying the whites, in bringing peace and prosperity, we are forever in his debt. (A Russian view…

…4a. Lenin adapted Marxism to conditions in Russia because the country was in a state that wouldn't have been ideal for Marx's concepts. Marx had predicted that the unhappy working class would overthrow the capitalist government, as they were the getting…

…Patrick Smith Songs are powerful tools used by many people as a way to address certain issues. Sergei Prokofiev and Sting, used a song they titled, “Russians”, as a way to get the world to see that the Cold War was a useless war that must end…

…in Russia in 1899. During his exile, a number of Marxist groups joined and formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1902, Lenin wrote What is to be Done? A year later, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into two groups, the Bolsheviks…

…," Lenin called for "Nationalization of all lands in the country, and management of such lands by local Soviets of Agricultural Laborers' and Peasants' Deputies" (Russian History 1905-30"). In 1929, when Stalin forced collectivization onto the agricultural…

…In class on February 13th, we watched the Russian folk music group perform. They were a group of graduate and undergraduate students and they sang seasonal folk music. In their performance, they sang nine songs. The first song was named “Come Let us…

…Lenin said that it's possible to talk about creation of a Soviet Union (i.e. import of socialism) only when we are absolutely sure of socialism in our own country. Those who talk about restoration of the Soviet Union without having yet Soviet power…

…Lenin's Impact on Russia Vladimere Lenin was a very critical character in Russian history. He might have freed the Russian civilization from Tsarist rule. The question that you must contemplate most is, did he really make Russia better…

…in Russia, and the translating of Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy. After his term of exile ends, Lenin emigrates to Münich, and is soon joined by Krupskaya. Lenin creates Iskra, in efforts to bring together the Russian Social Democratic Labour…

…finished what Lenin started by gaining influence through power and using the first Five Year Plan. Lenin and Stalin were of the same personality. Both were extreme activists with an obsession with violence. This quote from A Concise History of the Russian…